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Ho ho ho time is almost here. Today is frigid and windy and clear. Too cold for playing outside in the cold, hot coffee and crafting the story to be told. Inspired by friend April Cole, today was playful coffee cuff upcycling. And finishing my contemporary calypso rag wreath. I’m hooked on these knotted […]

Once in a while you get a nice, heavyweight piece of junk mail you want to redo and send along to a friend. Well, a friend sent me one and I decided to re-do it and send it back. (That friend might figure out who she is, so I better get this in the mail […]

What can one do with an old silk screen frame? Well, paint/collage on it of course…I rescued some silk screen frames from a trash pile a few years back and have use them in all manner of things from jewelry racks to cork boards. This latest has become a painting all it’s own. Flutter Bye […]

Over at Artists in Blogland, the May Challenge is up for Color This Quote and Jessica Sporn has used one of my favorite quotes by Picasso. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” I must have been channeling Jessica because I was working on Gloria and she fits this idea perfectly. A […]

Upcycle, upcycle, upcycle…that’s a motto I try and follow as often as I can. Since the Superhero and I are in the Office Furniture Biz, we get lots of 3 ring catalogs. When they get old and tatty, I hate to throw them away and they are not so easy to recycle, you have to […]

Decluttering some business files from 1998 – yes you read that correctly – 1998 – left a stack of discarded file folders that were pretty ratty. As I was contemplating what to do with them, the gelli plate popped into the corner of my eye. With a whole stack of stencils, rubber stamps, fingers making […]

Pondering the Fall Fearless and Fly Challenge #6 led me to this page. These are the prompts from Dina Wakely for this challenge. (Headline Prompt: Divided by God: What does “God” mean to you? How do you access”God” or the divine or the sacred in your life? Color Prompt: Metallics – gold, silver, copper, bronze, or all of […]

Been playing about with some different colors, darker, more vintage in response to Mary Beth Shaw’s Tic Tac Texture class I took at Art-Is-You. All that ultramarine blue, teal(my fave),light violet(another different color), yellow oxide, burnt sienna and white. Using cereal boxes as a substrate (5×7 pieces thereabouts) I experimented with various color combinations and […]

My favorite studio apron, which I posted about here was getting really ratty looking. I had wiped far too much paint, pitt pen and collage glue all over it. I do love it though because it is canvas and keeps the paint off my clothes. I am after all a messy creator, that’s why the apron […]

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"Creativity does not come
with a set of instructions.
There is no fragile,
handle with care,
this end up, contents may
shift in transit.
Yet we are fragile,
a bag of bones
inside a permeable membrane
with a mass of gray matter
held inside a
thin, bony shell.
And we definitely do
shift in transit.
So what are we waiting for?"
Corrine Gilman